This week was all about Scarecrows. We learned where they “live”, what their purpose is and even built our own. Stuffing the scarecrow turned out to be great fine motor work as they crumpled newspapers to stuff the clothing and poked Raffia through the tiny closed up ends of the legs, arms and neck. The scarecrow was also painted with glow in the dark paint, although we are unsure of how well this paint works.
We learned that Scarecrows often “live” on farms where they scare away birds so they don’t eat crops. Together we tried to figure out what sorts of crops grow on a farm. The kids sure thought up a lot! After this, we estimated how many corn kernels were in the container and counted them into groups of 5. It turned out that we had 573! Later in the day, after counting the popcorn kernels we did a little science and popped them in the microwave. The kids practiced their listening and patience while they made their own ears of corn so they could then have their own bowls of popcorn. How exciting!
The kids have been doing great on the crafts we have been doing where they are given only an example and no instructions. I like to see how they process what they see into what they make.
Our main scarecrow song this week was “Dingle Dangle Scarecrow” and below is a list of the themed books we read.
The Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown
The Silly Scarecrow (a Clifford book) by Norman Birdwell
The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston
The Falling Leaves and the Scarecrow by Steve Metzger and Jill Dublin
The letters we worked on this week were T and H. They practiced building H with wooden pieces, tracing H with stickers while singing the “Where Do You Start Your Letters” song by Handwriting Without Tears and drawing overlapping Ts to further practice where to start their letters. The kids also went on a letter hunt for all of the uppercase and lowercase letters. Once they found a letter patch, then ran back to me, told me what it was called and if it was an uppercase or lowercase and then glued the letter patch to the scarecrow.
Some other things we did this week included journal drawings of a scarecrow story we read, practiced AB patterns with farm pictures, built Mat Man, made snow angels, rolled snowballs and made snowmen.
We learned that Scarecrows often “live” on farms where they scare away birds so they don’t eat crops. Together we tried to figure out what sorts of crops grow on a farm. The kids sure thought up a lot! After this, we estimated how many corn kernels were in the container and counted them into groups of 5. It turned out that we had 573! Later in the day, after counting the popcorn kernels we did a little science and popped them in the microwave. The kids practiced their listening and patience while they made their own ears of corn so they could then have their own bowls of popcorn. How exciting!
The kids have been doing great on the crafts we have been doing where they are given only an example and no instructions. I like to see how they process what they see into what they make.
Our main scarecrow song this week was “Dingle Dangle Scarecrow” and below is a list of the themed books we read.
The Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown
The Silly Scarecrow (a Clifford book) by Norman Birdwell
The Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston
The Falling Leaves and the Scarecrow by Steve Metzger and Jill Dublin
The letters we worked on this week were T and H. They practiced building H with wooden pieces, tracing H with stickers while singing the “Where Do You Start Your Letters” song by Handwriting Without Tears and drawing overlapping Ts to further practice where to start their letters. The kids also went on a letter hunt for all of the uppercase and lowercase letters. Once they found a letter patch, then ran back to me, told me what it was called and if it was an uppercase or lowercase and then glued the letter patch to the scarecrow.
Some other things we did this week included journal drawings of a scarecrow story we read, practiced AB patterns with farm pictures, built Mat Man, made snow angels, rolled snowballs and made snowmen.
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